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Mustek UB Plus 1200 scanner under Mac OS X

It is unlikely that there are many others suffering like us with a Mustek 1200 UB Plus Scanner, but I write down how you can use it under Mac OS X.

Mustek provides drivers only for the old Mac OS, so the only alternative remains the sane driver (environment, exactly) for scanners which might be familiar to Linux-users. Thanks to the similar kernels of Linux and Mac, it works perfectly under Mac.

The steps:

  1. download libusb, SANE backends, Sane Preference Pane and Twain SANE Interface from here: http://www.ellert.se/twain-sane/ (for time saving purposes here is the whole stuff for Leopard in one file).
  2. Install the packages one by one (in the same order as above)
  3. Download sbfw.usb from here: http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/gt68xx-backend/. This is included for the Leopard-package, too.
  4. Copy sbfw.usb in /usr/local/share/sane/gt68xx directory (sudo cp Downloads/sbfw.usb /usr/local/share/sane/gt68xx sbfw.usb)
  5. Change the rights to 777 (sudu chmod 777 /usr/local/share/sane/gt68xx/sbfw.usb)
  6. Write in the /usr/local/etc/sane.d/mustek_usb.conf file these two lines: 
    7. # "Auto"-detect Mustek 1200 UB
       usb 0x05d8 0x4002
  7. In /usr/local/etc/sane.d/mustek_usb.conf comment out (put a hash before it) line override "mustek-scanexpress-1200-ub-plus", under Mustek ScanExpress 1200 UB Plus to that:
    8. # Mustek ScanExpress 1200 UB Plus:
       #override "mustek-scanexpress-1200-ub-plus"

Ready!

If you want to scan something there are two possibilities:

1. Using graphical interface: In the application Image Capture under the Devices menu there is the Browse Devices command, where you can find the Use TWAIN UI window. Click on that and scan as usually.

2. It is more geeky to use Terminal:

scanimage --format=tiff --mode=Lineart --resolution=150 > scan.tiff

The mode can be Gray and Color, it is worth to use the resolution parameter, if the default 300 dpi is not good for you (I needed this command for faxing, so in normal circumstances it is enough to scan with low resolution in black and white).

You can find the result in the scan.tiff file (you can change the path and the file name, too).

Submitted by Ferencz Anna on Mon, 08/03/2009 - 12:57.